Fukuoka Marathon 2009: Invited Runners

Tsegaye Kebede (ETH)

2:05:20 2009 London
Evans Cheruiyot (KEN)

2:06:25 2008 Chicago
Dmytro Baranovsky (UKR)

2:07:15 2006 Fukuoka
Yonas Kifle (ERI)

2:07:34 2007 Amsterdam
Jon Brown (CAN)

2:09:31 2005 London
Tekeste Kebede (ETH)

2:09:49 2009 Boston
Oleg Kulkov (RUS)

2:10:13 2009 Zurich
Mekubo Mogusu (KEN)

debut 59:48 half marathon best

Japanese
Tsuyoshi Ogata

2:08:37 2003 Fukuoka
Tomoyuki Sato

2:09:43 2004 Tokyo

Pace maker
Yu Mitsuya (JPN)

1:29:55 (30Km)
Samson Ramadhani (TAN)

2:08:01 2003 London
John Kales (KEN)

1:00:47 (half) 2007

Other notable runners:
Harun Njoroge (KEN)

1:01:04 2008 Sapporo Half Marathon
Joseph Gitau (KEN)

1:01:19 2008 Sapporo Half Marathon
Dereje Tesfaye Gebrehiwot (ETH)

2:11:10 2006 Hamburg
Luis Feiteira (POR)

2:11:57 2009 Praha
Vitaliy Shafar (UKR)

2:12:07 2007 Eindhoven
Koji Ueoka (JPN)

2:15:03 2009 Tokyo

Thanks to K. Ken Nakamura